This product is like perfume for your hair. This can be either a good or bad thing depending on your taste, but this was seriously more strongly scented than some of my perfumes. I didn't find it did anything particularly spectacular as a detangler. When applied to dry hair it did make my hair softer and gave it nice shine without being greasy. I did find it a bit difficult to spread through dry hair evenly, but I think that is true of all products of this sort.